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Where do we start? On Sunday, VeloceToday correspondent Vince Johnson told us that 80 year old Sir Stirling Moss had suffered a fall into an elevator shaft which resulted in serious injuries. At last report he is in the hospital in stable condition. The accident broke both his ankles, suffering four broken bones, gashes and four chipped vertebrae. Get well soon, Sir Stirling.

The winner of the Etceterini contest is detailed below. We thank you all for your votes. A copy of the new Nardi book will be awarded to the winner at Amelia by Cliff Reuter, courtesy of author Dino Brunori. We will have a full in depth article about the Bandini Saponetta in an upcoming edition of VeloceToday.

Good news from Roberto Motta, who was at Arese this past weekend and was introduced the Mayor of Milan, Letizia Moratti. She has promised to help keep the Alfa Romeo Museum at Arese. The Mayor is obviously enchanted with Alfas, we in turn are enchanted by the vivacious and enthusiastic Letizia Moratti. We’ll keep you posted on future plans for Alfa and the Museum.

Or, how about this. Alessandro Gerelli went to Geneva and caught the new Green Ferrari KERS. Exactly two years ago this editor wrote an article about a proposed KERS Ferrari, with help from Christopher Keller, Raffi Minasian and KERS expert Chris Ellis. Ferrari, it seems has finally caught on. More, of course, coming up later.

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Readers were captiviated by this Bandini Saponetta owned by Marc Richelsoph.

1957 Bandini DOHC “Saponetta”

“Saponetta” means little soap bar, for being small and slippery. The unique patented oval tubing, lightweight engine, and aluminum body form one of the lightest race cars built in its day.

Built in 1957, this particular car was raced in Italy by Ilario Bandini before being imported into the U.S. in 1959. It was then raced extensively at locations such as Watkins Glen during the 60’s. It is one of nine known to exist and one of the few with its original hand hammered aluminum body and original twin cam engine. The engine consists of a heavily modified Crosley block with an aluminum twin cam cylinder head designed by Ilario Bandini. By using twin Weber 32DCOA3 carburetors, the engine can achieve 68 H.P with a maximum RPM of 8500. Today it is owned by Marc Richelsoph.

Congratulations Marc and we hope you will enjoy Dino Brunori’s book “Nardi, a fast life”. Our thanks to Dino for contributing this book for our contest.